Re: [Cooker] Still no X for Voodoo 3

2002-03-10 Thread John Allen
Ron Stodden wrote: >Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > >>Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>I am interested in your (and Mandrake's) opinion. >>> >>What's strange is that my machine, Fred Lepied's test >>machine, one crashtester of Civileme (Francisco Alcaraz)'s >>machine, and Danny's, al

Re: [Cooker] Re: Upgrade will not proceed due to lack of disk space

2002-03-10 Thread John Allen
John Allen wrote: > Brian J. Murrell wrote: > >> On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 08:48:51PM +, John Allen wrote: >> >>> The user should have the option of installing anyway, as an upgrade >>> typically overwrites quite a lot of existing files. >>>

Re: [Cooker] Re: Upgrade will not proceed due to lack of disk space

2002-03-10 Thread John Allen
Brian J. Murrell wrote: >On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 08:48:51PM +, John Allen wrote: > >>The user should have the option of installing anyway, as an upgrade >>typically overwrites quite a lot of existing files. >> > >Are you sure that is not already bei

Re: [Cooker] Mozilla 0.9.8 is out

2002-03-10 Thread John Allen
Neville Cobb wrote: > Had the same problem > > I eventually changed it via the "view - Apply Theme - Modern". > I could not change it under "Edit Preferences - Themes" as if I > clicked on either modern or classic the only choice was "uninstall > modern" or "uninstall classic" but neither selec

[Cooker] BETA4 update fails while creating initrd. (mkinitrd hangs)

2002-03-09 Thread John Allen

[Cooker] Upgrade will not proceed due to lack of disk space

2002-03-09 Thread John Allen
The user should have the option of installing anyway, as an upgrade typically overwrites quite a lot of existing files.

Re: [Cooker] Mozilla 0.9.8 is out

2002-03-09 Thread John Allen
Han wrote: >Thierry Vignaud ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>and is in cooker for quite a few hours :-) >> > >And the only thing it does is segfault. > Works for me, but Modern theme is not working. > > >Groetjes, Han. >

Re: [Cooker] Latest kernel still hangs in sync() on Dell Precision 220

2002-03-01 Thread John Allen
Latest kernel solves the sync() problem, but there are still 2 other problems. 1) Music plays too fast (about 10%) 2) If I run Mozilla, I get random reboots. Other than that though things are great Juan Quintela wrote: >>>>>>"john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PRO

[Cooker] Latest kernel still hangs in sync() on Dell Precision 220

2002-02-10 Thread John Allen
The latest kernel still hangs in sync() on Dell Precision 220. This will mean that a significant number of possible users for MDK 8.2 will be unable to use it. Is anybody interested in fixing this problem?

[Cooker] Kernel problems on Dell Precision 220

2002-01-16 Thread John J. Allen
anges between the last working version (2.4.15 something), and the current 2.4.17 to see if I can see what might be causing the problem. Thanks -- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer: www:

Re: [Cooker] Still problems with kernel 2.4.17-1mdk (same with 2.4.17-2)

2002-01-14 Thread John J. Allen
John J. Allen wrote: > Frederik Himpe wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I did a complete update of my Cooker system yesterday. With kernel >> 2.4.17-1mdk I still get this error everytime I boot: >> >> Jan 7 09:35:53 Jupiter kernel: Freeing unused kernel mem

Re: [Cooker] Still problems with kernel 2.4.17-1mdk

2002-01-08 Thread John J. Allen
3 Jupiter kernel: CPU:0 > Jan 7 09:35:53 Jupiter kernel: EIP: > [snipped] I have the same problem on my Dell Precision 220, but not on my homemade AMD box, it works flawlessly. -- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer

Re: [Cooker] System collapsing after a few hours!

2002-01-04 Thread John J. Allen
ind out > what is wrong with my box. > had a similar problem after installing 8.1 on top of a previous cooker. The screen saver, and desktop wallpaper changer were basically eating memory, leaving the machine in an unusable state after only a few hours. I delete the .kde... directories from

[Cooker] 2.4.16-11mdk hangs in sync() call on Dell Precision WS220 (with a single CPU)

2001-12-31 Thread John Allen

Re: [Cooker] Whanare we going to see a 2.4.x with the AA VM?

2001-11-14 Thread John Allen
svetljo wrote: > you should wait till Alan Cox releases a stable 2.4.14 or maybe 2.4.15 > 2.4.13-ac8 is too long out there > and Linus made a vast merge from Alan's stuff > i hope he'll finish 2.4.15 this week > and then comes 2.5 > > back to MDK stuff > why not give a try to vanila kernel when

[Cooker] Whanare we going to see a 2.4.x with the AA VM?

2001-11-14 Thread John Allen

Re: [Cooker] Problem with rpmdrake

2001-10-21 Thread John J. Allen
omponents from cooker though, and am quite happy with things at the moment. -- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer: www: http://udk.sf.net phone: intl+353-14937616 : intl+353-862315986

Re: [Cooker] rpms suck

2001-10-05 Thread john . allen
is ineffective for compression > used in RPM. You gain nothing; actually you just incur more overhead due > to rsync protocol. > > > -andrej > Not true, have you used Ron Stoddens rsyncpl script, All I can say is that it is almost like magic watching it update a 2 Meg RPM

Re: [Cooker] rpms suck

2001-10-05 Thread john . allen
w name, and binary patching it from the new one. Check out how rsync works on www.samba.org -- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer: www: http://udk.sf.net

Re: [Cooker] rpms suck

2001-10-04 Thread john . allen
dilerious. contemplating > yogurt. > OK, so what we need is rsync like functionality in rpm, and a special rpm server. Jeez sounds like something I'd love to do. -- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer:

Re: [Cooker] Fix for huge fonts in XFree4 with MDK8.1

2001-10-03 Thread john . allen
Peter Ruskin wrote: > On Wednesday 03 October 2001 16:30, John J. Allen wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> > [...] > >> >> >> > > When you post in html it's too much bother to try reading it - I disable > html in kmail. >

[Cooker] Fix for huge fonts in XFree4 with MDK8.1

2001-10-03 Thread John J. Allen
Assuming your are using kdm for logins In the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers add -dpi 75 or whatever you want your DPI to be to the following line # original line :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -deferglyphs 16 # modified line :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -deferglyphs 16 -dpi 75 Perhaps we could add this

[Cooker] Fonts in Mozilla 0.9.4 are tiny

2001-09-26 Thread John Allen
The mailbox lists, and message lists are OK, but the font for plain text messages is too small, and way different to 0.9.3 which looked great.

Re: [Cooker] The case of total KDE death again

2001-09-25 Thread john . allen
As I came > back I exactly saw splash screen disappearing. > > As usual, I ask myself why this should start to happen just before > release ... > > -andrej I think this may be a problem with the nspluginscan, I had to delete some shite from my plugins directory to

Re: [Cooker] Patch for ifup to fix problem where FQDN is passed to DHCP server

2001-09-21 Thread john . allen
I get the correct entry > tornado.moyville.ie > Latest initscripts actually contain a patch I submitted for this before, although I think this solution is better. -- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer:

[Cooker] Patch for ifup to fix problem where FQDN is passed to DHCP server

2001-09-19 Thread john . allen
If you are using the DHCP server to automatically update your DNS, and you do not apply this patch, your DNS entries will be incorrect. Before the patch I was getting tornado.moyville.ie.moyville.ie After the patch I get the correct entry tornado.moyville.ie -- John Allen

[Cooker] Autoconf still setting executable suffix to .C for C++ compiles

2001-09-04 Thread John Allen
-- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct: +353-1-2178610, +353-86-2315986 Sandyford Industrial Estate, Office: +353-1-2945111 Dublin 18

Re: [Cooker] mkcds script problems

2001-08-23 Thread john . allen
2975488 Aug 21 19:21 2-Cooker-i586.iso* >-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 457834496 Aug 21 19:23 3-Cooker-i586.iso* > Ran mkcds today, and got three good images (all around 580 megs in size) -- John Allen email: [EMAIL P

Re: [Cooker] Autoconf 2.13 broken

2001-08-19 Thread john . allen
ow that some packages > were using it). > > -andrej Whether 2.14 is a development release or not, that does not remove the fact that 2.13 is broken with respect to C++. I generates test programs with a .C extension, which it does not exclude from being tested as an executable extension

[Cooker] Autoconf 2.13 broken

2001-08-14 Thread john . allen
The autoconf 2.13 is detecting .C as the executable suffix. The problem is in the executable suffix check where it only lists *.c *.obj etc.. but not *.C which is the extension that autoconf gives to C++ test programs (conftest.C) Works fine with 2.14 -- John Allen

Re: [Cooker] moderated cooker mailinglist

2001-08-14 Thread john . allen
-- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer: www: http://udk.sf.net phone: intl+353-14937616 : intl+353-862315986

Re: [Cooker] xfs

2001-08-14 Thread john . allen
suggest that if you choose XF4 on install, then xfs should be deselected >and DrakX should add the font paths to XF86Config-4. > Anybody care to post a HOWTO get you XF4.x.x fonts to look like 3.3.6 did? -- John Allen email: [

Re: [Cooker] Patch for ifup script to fix DHCP/Dynamic DNS problems with DHCP_HOSTNAME

2001-07-24 Thread john . allen
erver. If that is the case youmust ensure thatany hostname passwd to the DHCP server does not contain thedomainname, otherwisethe entry in the DNS will contain the domainname twice.Please include in next iniscript updates.Thanks. -- John

[Cooker] Patch for ifup script to fix DHCP/Dynamic DNS problems with DHCP_HOSTNAME

2001-07-21 Thread john . allen
domainname twice. Please include in next iniscript updates. Thanks. -- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer: www: http://www.udk.org phone: intl+353-14937616

[Cooker] Latest Mozilla package does not run moz via soundwrapper

2001-07-21 Thread john . allen
The latest Mozilla package does not run mozilla via soundwrapper, this causes Mozilla to block while trying to open /dev/dsp -- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer: www: http://www.udk.org

[Cooker] Fixed /etc/sysconfig/amd

2001-07-21 Thread john . allen
te Thanks -- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer: www: http://www.udk.org phone: intl+353-14937616 : intl

Re: [Cooker] KDE?

2001-07-02 Thread john . allen
g.. but if it's gonna be a while, how about a >progress report and an ETA? > > V. > What do you mean, I'm using Cooker from 19/06/2001 with pam downgraded to 23/04/2001. -- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer

Re: [Cooker] how to add users to my domain?

2001-07-02 Thread john . allen
27;t work. -- John Allen email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenSource Developer:  www: http://www.vptk.org phone: intl+353-14937616 : intl+353-862315986

Re: [Cooker] when gcc3 ?

2001-06-29 Thread john . allen
//tools.openoffice.org/tools-dev/msg00017.htmlit seems that this is a compiler problem. Anyone knows if there is a wayaround it? Not the only problem with 2.96, it also messes up with namespaces, finding some classes automatically, and not others. [EMAIL PROTECTED]">

Re: [Cooker] setup is screwing with my passwd file!

2001-06-25 Thread John Allen
Brian J. Murrell wrote: > >Now setup is deleting accounts. Another package recently added an >account and the setup upgrade deleted it. Bah! I sure am glad I >understand this stuff under the hood and am not a regular old user or >would be tearing my hair out now. :-) > Ordinary users should n

Re: [Cooker] 2.4.5-8 - Install pb's

2001-06-25 Thread John Allen
guran wrote: >Hi > >VERSION(rsync ftp.sunet.se) >Linux-Mandrake Cooker-i586 20010624 11:15 > >OBS! ASUS P3V4X with VIA Apollo Pro133A Chipset > >Install of linuxconf still takes for ever. > This appears to be a missing .so, check console 1, lots of messages using Newt, that timeout in 1

[Cooker] Write permissions problem with ReiserFS

2001-05-29 Thread John Allen
If I have a directory/file with group write permissions, and I am in that group I still cannot write/create in that directory. This works fine with ext2 Any clues?

Re: [Cooker] Eazel services picked up and expanded by Mandrake?

2001-05-20 Thread John J. Allen
With reference to your statement in relation to revenue, and hard times in relation to cash, would Mandrake consider a user/developer investment plan. I'd rather invest direct in Mandrake, than purchase a boxed set where a considerable portion of the revenue goes to the box makers, box shifters et

Re: [Cooker] 8.1

2001-05-10 Thread John Allen
Armisis Aieoln wrote: > In the latest 8.1 cooker the libssl is missing my kmail wont run with out it, > I had to reinstall it from my 8.0 CD's > > dave Its a bit more serious than that, libssl, and libintl1.so.1 are not in the RPMs in the hdlists, so thet don't get installed. The RPMs are ther

Re: [Cooker] 8.1

2001-05-10 Thread John Allen
michael wrote: > > Blue Lizard wrote: > >> michael wrote: >> >>> How close are we to a beta of 8.1? >>> -m- >>> >>> >>> >> Boy, you out o yo mind. We aint even close to freeze. > > :-) > Just axing. I mean, it does say 8.1 In my opinion the next cooker release should be 9.0. 8.0 has too

[Cooker] am-utils problem

2001-05-08 Thread John Allen
/sysconfig/amd The $MOUNTPTS is not there in am-utils 6.0.5-4mdk, and works fine. Removing the $MOUNTPTS from /etc/init.d/amd fixes this problem. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sand

[Cooker] I think I've found a bug in Vixie Cron

2001-05-04 Thread John Allen
irror start scheduled to run at 23:00. Strangely I have 2 jobs listed after them at those times? -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct: +353-1-21

Re: [Cooker] Where did Afterstep go?

2001-05-04 Thread John Allen
t; Alexander Skwar Well a careful look would reveal that cooker is essentially Mandrake Powerpack -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct: +35

Re: [Cooker] Where did Afterstep go?

2001-05-03 Thread John Allen
R.I.P. Deaddog wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001, John Allen wrote: > >>>>> Huh, yes it's gone. I pulled the CDs from sunsite.uio.no . Nowhere is >>>> > ^^ > >> It's on the ftp.sunet.se mirror NOW

Re: [Cooker] Where did Afterstep go?

2001-05-02 Thread John Allen
R.I.P. Deaddog wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001, John Allen wrote: > >>> Huh, yes it's gone. I pulled the CDs from sunsite.uio.no . Nowhere is >>> Afterstep found. >>> >> Why not try WindowMaker, it is afterall the official GNUStep Window Manager >

Re: [Cooker] internet problem

2001-05-02 Thread John Allen
I'm using a Cooker from about 24th April, and have no problem with either site using included Mozilla. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct:

Re: [Cooker] Where did Afterstep go?

2001-05-02 Thread John Allen
CDs from sunsite.uio.no . Nowhere is > Afterstep found. > > Abel Cheung > Why not try WindowMaker, it is afterall the official GNUStep Window Manager -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbisc

Re: [Cooker] shared library error

2001-05-02 Thread John Allen
than creating > a link? > > sarang > Although this may sound rather stupid, why not compile the program on 8.0? I'd never consider building an app on Windows 3.1, and then wondering why it wouldn't work on Windows 2000. -- John Allen, Email: mail

Re: [Cooker] internet problem

2001-05-02 Thread John Allen
ching name server is almost certainly the problem, restart it. > > Could someone try this and verify it for me? > > Thanks, > > Vinny -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://

Re: [Cooker] Samba 2.2.0 --> TMP = /root/tmp ??

2001-04-27 Thread John Allen
gt; This is a problem with the Mandrake security level. If the level is 3 or greater then secure tmp directories are turned on. edit `locate tmpdir.sh` and change the -ge 3 to -gt 3 -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:

Re: [Cooker] When is cooker coming back?

2001-04-26 Thread John Allen
Alexander Skwar wrote: > So sprach Quel Qun am Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:49:57PM -0600: > > > ??? What do you mean? > > Alexander Skwar Perhaps that ftp.sunet.se has been uncontactable since 18/04/2001 -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

[Cooker] Samba browsing failing (due to security level)

2001-04-24 Thread John Allen
Samba browsing fails in security level 3, this is due to the secure tmpdir. msec does not fix the problem, as the /etc/profile.d/tmpdir.sh checks the SECURITY evn var, not SECURITY_LEVEL. SECURITY_LEVEL is set in /etc/profile as is modified by msec, but SECURITY is set in /etc/sysconfig/system, a

Re: [Cooker] Apache fixed in 8.0?

2001-04-12 Thread John Allen
d yes, apache, mod_ssl, mod_perl and mod_php now > work beautifully you might say. > > Con. php-common isn't in the hdlists so it ends up on the last CD, and you have to install it manually later. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom L

Re: [Cooker] RC1 feedback

2001-04-12 Thread John Allen
Stefan Siegel wrote: > Neulich schrieb John Allen: > >>> Or how about "Thanks for choosing Linux-Mandrake", which I suspect is more >>> along the lines of the original intention. >>> >> As a native English speaker I'd go with the previous

Re: [Cooker] RC1 feedback

2001-04-12 Thread John Allen
question. On the screen > most of the salutations seem to start with a captial. Why does the > english salutaion 'welcome' start then with a lowercase 'w'. > > Other than that the expert install I did seemed to go okay. Some of the > wording didn't seem

Re: [Cooker] RC1 feedback

2001-04-11 Thread John Allen
along the lines of the original intention. > > Regards, > Mattias > > As a native English speaker I'd go with the previous option: "Thank you for choosing Linux-Mandrake" There are a few other English oddities, I'll try to record them when I install at home

Re: [Cooker] kernel panic with latest network.img

2001-04-06 Thread John Allen
g a XFree failure (no font fixed found), although the CDs made from same files works OK. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct: +353-1-2178610 Sandyford Indu

Re: [Cooker] Strange permissions of mkisofs

2001-04-05 Thread John Allen
Thierry Vignaud wrote: > John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Essantially making mkisofs a+rx is no harm whatsoever. >> >> I create .iso's the get written using another machine, the >> machine I create the .iso's on does not have a CD writ

Re: [Cooker] Strange permissions of mkisofs

2001-04-05 Thread John Allen
d to support them it is SUID > root, too. > So we make all these utilities be root.cdwriter owned and use goup > membership to offer security. > >> And last, why is it owned by group cdwriter, and not group root, >> like about anything else? > > > root suid (or gu

[Cooker] Linux font not available for KDE Konsole app

2001-04-05 Thread John Allen
-- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct: +353-1-2178610 Sandyford Industrial Estate, Office: +353-86-2315986 Dublin 18

[Cooker] YP still not being installed, even though NIS selected during installation

2001-04-05 Thread John Allen
DrakX v1.472 does not appear to even be attempting to install the YP software. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct: +353-1-2178610 Sandyford

[Cooker] Kernel Panic: VFS: Cannot mount root fs on 03:06 (DrakX v1.472)

2001-04-05 Thread John Allen
/, and /boot both reiser, but DrakX v1.472 did not create initrd images so cannot mount root. Used mkinitrd, and updated lilo.conf, and all is working. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com

Re: [Cooker] Double mounting!

2001-04-04 Thread John Allen
47% /hde5 > > Beta 3 is serious about getting on my machine I guess > How do I fix? I guess this is problem with / being initially mounted read-only, and then being remounted read/write, and somehow the entry is being added to mtab again. -- John Allen, Ema

Re: [Cooker] CD-Burning software after cooker's installation

2001-04-03 Thread John Allen
I don't have a burner on this system, but I definitely want to able to create .iso's. Also mkisofs is only executable by user/group by default, that's a pain. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,

Re: [Cooker] YaTE

2001-03-26 Thread John Allen
ch like saying C++ is just a rehash of sh. > [snipped] -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct: +353-1-2178610 Sandyford Industrial Estate,

Re: [Cooker] RFC DrakX package selection tree

2001-03-22 Thread John Allen
Wednesday, March 21, 2001 6:09 AM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [Cooker] RFC DrakX package selection tree >> >> >> the checkbox "Automatic dependencies" seems badly understood. >> >> Any better words? >> >

[Cooker] Install problems DrakX v1.463

2001-03-22 Thread John Allen
sions produces the following error Can't write to /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Gnome Suggestions: An existing boot loader (lilo/grub) should be looked for before formatting partitions. All in all this is probably the best set of CD's I've burned yet. -- John Allen, E

Re: [Cooker] Dial on demand

2001-03-19 Thread John Allen
rk properly -- apparently there is too much > stuff on a typical install that would from time to time, dial the line, > making it unusable. > > -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.c

Re: [Cooker] KDM and port 1024? Why?

2001-03-13 Thread John Allen
; -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE6reJDa+1mQTM0P9MRAv6UAJ0anNckqIwIXdz6JeVNInFFOu68NwCfU4ny > ZjgLFPTPNVdkqOmFffir7CM= > =iUWG > -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- John Allen,

Re: [Cooker] NIS/YP

2001-03-08 Thread John Allen
The latest cooker is still not installing YP because of the circular dependancy. John Allen wrote: > For quite a while now YP is not being installed during setup. > > There is a circular dependency between yp-tool, and ypbind that > prevents either installing unless I use --nodeps.

Re: [Cooker] NFS not working in latest cooker

2001-03-08 Thread John Allen
I've switched back to the 2.2.17 kernel as shipped with Mandrake 7.2, and NFS to/from cooker is now working fine. It appears that the NFS problem only occurs with the 2.2.18 kernel, the puzzling thing is that this problem did not occur with early cookers. *

[Cooker] Problems with install 7/3/2001

2001-03-08 Thread John Allen
VIM X11 still not being installed mkisofs not being installed ** The information contained in this message is confidential and is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you have received this message in error or there are a

Re: [Cooker] DiskDrake during install

2001-03-07 Thread John Allen
I am not saying that it should be created, just that the dropdown list no longer contains /boot. I still use a /boot partition, I guess old habits just die hard. Alexander Skwar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">So sprach John Allen am Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:16:44AM +: During installation

[Cooker] DiskDrake during install

2001-03-06 Thread John Allen
During installation there is no longer a /boot option in the mount points drop down list. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct: +353-1-2178610

[Cooker] gtkcreate_png: missing png file monitor.png

2001-03-06 Thread John Allen
Since yesterday I have been unable to install the latest mirrored 8.0 with this error when installing/configuring X. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park

Re: [Cooker] Mandrake is WONDERFULL

2001-03-06 Thread John Allen
ecognised but the RPMs were on one of the Promise disks and they didn't have > a driver for that. > > Caldera wouldn't play either. > > I think we all take for granted the excellent hardware support provided by > Mandrake in its distributions and I congratu

Re: [Cooker] NFS not working in latest cooker

2001-03-02 Thread John Allen
Further update: With this morning's rsynced cooker, NFS to the Sun boxes (Solaros 2.6), and HP boxes (HP-UX 11.00) appears to be working fine, but still no joy with Mandrake 7.2, and kernel 2.2.18 boxes. John Allen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Cooker] 8.0 Beta slow/vasting cpu time

2001-03-02 Thread John Allen
nously 100 %.What could be the reason? Is this only on my PC (700MHz, 512 MB)?You have a process called 'kapm-idled'. It's a kernelprocess that uses therest of your CPU. Doesn't harm. M... what is this usefull for??? Claudio -- John Allen,

Re: [Cooker] NFS not working in latest cooker

2001-03-02 Thread John Allen
Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: With the latest cooker I cannot copy files via nfs, the clienthangs after receiving a varying amount of data.I can copy no problem using scp. what kernel version on the client and on the serve

Re: [Cooker] NIS/YP

2001-03-01 Thread John Allen
Pixel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]">John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: For quite a while now YP is not being installed during setup. you mean at install you chose NIS? Yes [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> There is a circular dependency between yp-tool, and ypbi

[Cooker] NFS not working in latest cooker

2001-03-01 Thread John Allen
With the latest cooker I cannot copy files via nfs, the client hangs after receiving a varying amount of data. I can copy no problem using scp. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3

[Cooker] NIS/YP

2001-03-01 Thread John Allen
For quite a while now YP is not being installed during setup. There is a circular dependency between yp-tool, and ypbind that prevents either installing unless I use --nodeps. Please fix ASAP. Thanks. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd

[Cooker] Can't created ISO's from install today

2001-02-28 Thread John Allen
I did an NFS install today, and now cannot create ISO's using the installed Mandy 8.0. The mkcdp.pl script hangs when running rpm2header. Portsentry reports a possible stealth attack on port 111 (sunrpc), it put over 15000 messages into system in a couple of seconds, Basically the system is then

[Cooker] Graphics during installation

2001-02-28 Thread John Allen
When I install via nfs I get those lovely graphics of diggers, and snow ploughs, but when I create CDs using mkcd.pl I don't get the graphics. Why?, I just don't get it, surely the CDs should result in an identical install. -- John Allen, Email: mai

[Cooker] Bug in mkcd.pl script

2001-02-26 Thread John Allen
The PATH is being set to "$rep/misc;$ENV{PATH}" Note the semi-colon! -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct: +353-1-2178610 Sandyford

[Cooker] Small patch for ifup

2001-02-05 Thread John Allen
Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct: +353-1-2178610 Sandyford Industrial Estate, Office: +353-86-2315986 Dublin 18. Fax

[Cooker] Emulating amd behaviour with automount?

2001-01-31 Thread John Allen
With good old amd you could just ls /net/machine-name and see all the exports for that machine, the question is how can you do this with automount (autofs)? ** The information contained in this message is confidential and is i

Re: [Cooker] About the text-based version of MandrakeUpdate

2001-01-23 Thread John Allen
A useful thing for Madrake update sites to do would be to put a TIMESTAMP file in the update directory, that way the update program could tell very quickly whether any updates were added since the last time it was run. -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Cooker] NFS with ReiserFS and FAT32

2001-01-22 Thread John Allen
or cd ...).Note that it's not a NFS configuration problem, since it work with an ext2 partition. can you explain who are the client who are the server how do you mountthe directory ? -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,

Re: [Cooker] Isn't cron'ing slocate on a daily basis a bit much !

2001-01-18 Thread John Allen
aving something > going hammer and tongs at the hard disk effectively brings the system to a > halt !! And I'm not exaggerating ! > > Owen -- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.

[Cooker] No supermount support in 2.4.0 kernel rpms?

2001-01-10 Thread John Allen
-- John Allen, Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com/ 3 Sandyford Park,Direct: +353-1-2178610 Sandyford Industrial Estate, Office: +353-86-2315986 Dublin 18

Re: [Cooker] Re-compiling alsa?

2000-12-22 Thread John Allen
: /lib/modules/2.4.0-0.14mdk/alsa/snd.o: insmod >snd-card-0 failed > Dec 16 16:53:10 audragon sound: Loading sound module (snd-card-0) failed > -- John Allen, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,Web:http://www.orbiscom.com 3 Sa

Re: [Cooker] [Cooker[ kernel-2.4.0-0.4 - preformance

2000-11-24 Thread John Allen
original > test-11. > > Oh. And i2c patches do break v4l, specially this is related to bttv's > drivers as some chipsets (mine included) demand i2c support. The > original test-11 kernel everything gets compiled without problems. > > And one last thing: I used gcc 2.9

Re: [Cooker] KDE 2.0 runs VERY slow

2000-11-13 Thread John Allen
make a diffrence. I tried windowmanager, and this completely removed the problem, but I prefer to use KDE. Have anyone seen this problem before, and have any ide what it can be? --  = John Allen,  Email

Re: [Cooker] Zip 250 drives don't hold 250MB !

2000-11-13 Thread John Allen
== John Allen,  Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Orbiscom Ltd,    Web:    http://www.orbiscom.com 3 Sandyford Park,    Phone:  +353-1-2945111 Sandyford Industrial Estate, Mobile: +353-86-2315986 Dublin 18.  

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